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Fourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023

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The Sisyphean task remains to try to keep up—and, in that vein—here is a light round of the emergency medicine literature from 2023. 12 In this trial, children with a urinary tract infection were randomized to either five or 10 days of oral antibotics. JAMA Pediatr.2023;177(8):782. How Best to Stop the Bleeding in Trauma?

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EM@3AM: Pneumocephalus

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to 9.7% [6] Pathophysiology: Pneumocephalus most commonly occurs when a traumatic event disrupts the integrity of the skull, allowing air to enter the cranial cavity [6] Ball valve theory of Dandy : unidirectional movement of air from the outside environment to the cranial cavity (e.g., traumatic brain injury) Mannitol – IV boluses of 0.25

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